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THE MIDLAND UNION OF NATURAL HISTORY 
SOCIETIES. 
ANNUAL MEETING AT LEICESTER. 
The thirteenth annual gathering of the Union took place at 
Leicester, on Thursday and Friday, September 18th and 19tli, 
the arrangements being under the control of the Leicester 
Literary and Philosophical Society. Mr. F. T. Mott is 
president of the Union, and the secretaries are as follows:— 
Birmingham, Mr. Lawson Tait, LL.D., F.R.C.S., and Mr. 
Kineton Parkes ; and Leicester, Messrs. C. J, Billson, M.A., 
W. Simpson, aud G. Hull. Thursday’s proceedings com¬ 
menced at one o'clock, when there was a private meeting of 
the council for the transaction of the preliminary business. 
At 1.45 the members of the union and their friends met at the 
Belvoir Street Schoolrooms, and parties were arranged to visit 
the different objects of antiquarian interest in the town. The 
members were divided into two groups. One was directed by 
Mr. W. Jackson, and the second by Mr. A. H. Paget. Starting 
in opposite directions, they each made a circuit of the places 
of interest of the town in course of the afternoon. Tliev 
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visited, among other things, the Magazine Gateway, the 
Trinity Hospital, the Chantry House in the Newark, the 
Castle Gateway, the Castle, and the Castle Mound, St. Mary’s 
St. Nicholas’s, St. Martin’s, and St. Margaret’s Churches, the 
Jewry Wall, Roman Pavement, and the Old Town Hall. At 
3.80 the members again assembled at the Belvoir Street 
Schoolrooms, were afternoon tea was served. 
The Annual Meeting. 
The annual meeting for the transaction of general business 
was then held, the President (Councillor Mott) occupying the 
chair. 
The Secretary read letters of apology from the following 
members, Mr. E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S. (Oxford), Rev. R. 
E. Wanstall (Condover) ; Mr. T. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc. 
(Birmingham); Mr. J. Kenward, F.S.A. (Birmingham); Mr. 
H. M. J. Underhill (Oxford); Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A., Mr. 
Jno. Rabone, and Mr. W. H. Wilkinson (Birmingham). 
Letters were also read from the following societies which were 
unable to send representatives: Chester Society of Natural 
Science, Peterborough Natural History, Scientific, and 
Archaeological Society; Croydon Microscopic and Natural 
History Club, Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archae¬ 
ological Society, North Staffordshire Naturalists’ Field Club, 
Barnsley Natural History Society, Marlborough College 
Natural History Society, and the Nottingham Natural History 
Society. 
